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From: tlglenn@cs.arizona.edu (Ted L. Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getchar()
Message-ID: <1059@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 00:59:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.063644.8459@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar6.165835.10237@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1991Mar6.165835.10237@cs.mcgill.ca>, storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>     Then is there ANY way that I can have sort of "HOT KEYS" ie the user
> just hits a  key, and then the computer recognizes that a key has been hit
> and the key is sent to some variable...?  (Using MSDOS...)
> 
>     Thanks for the help.

     I remember seeing a book in the university library about how one
could use Turbo Pascal to write programs that could set a BIOS or some
other interupt to be called when certain keys were pressed. I should
think that there are C books that deal with this topic.


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